February 27, 2024 - SPEAKER SERIES
Prem Gill, CEO of Creative BC Topic: The Creative Context for 2024
Despite facing challenges posed by global events like technological shifts, impacts from Hollywood strikes, and evolving consumer preferences, the global creative sector is looking at ways to adapt and navigate colliding influences. The intersection of technology, equity, and the environment is at the forefront, shaping the trajectory of the creative landscape as it advocates for new opportunities and strives for sustainability. Creative BC is looking to how we can support the current state of the sector and help each dynamic industry level up for 2024 and beyond.
Prem Gill has been named one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women, Vancouver Magazine’s “Power 50” and received the Community Catalyst award from the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. She brings more than 20 years of experience from the digital media and entertainment industries to her current role as CEO, where she is responsible for delivering a wide range of programs and services that will expand B.C.’s creative economy to reach its economic, social and creative potential both at home and globally.
Please join us for this speaker series event. Reach out to fellow Rotarians and friends who we don't see often to join you.
Mar 05, 2024 REGULAR MEETING
Speaker: Camilla Moioli, UBC Researcher
Topic: Potential and Risks of Forests in Climate Change Mitigation
Mar 12, 2024 CLUB DAY
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Speaker: Christina de Castell, Chief Librarian & CEO of Vancouver Public Library Topic: Libraries in the Age of the Internet
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On February 27th, you can learn about the Legend of Turtle Island with James Groening (@blueskyjwg), a Cree artist who specializes in the Woodland Art style. This immersive guided painting workshop will feature an introduction to the story of how Turtle Island was formed, while the artist leads participants in a guided painting session inspired by the legend.
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The 2024 District Conference is fast approaching
April 26-28, 2024
@ Terrace, BC
Imagine a journey into the heart of northwestern British Columbia, where the world within is magnificent mountains with teeming inlets, dense forests, and sleeping volcanoes. As you view this breathtaking landscape you connect with your Rotary family to celebrate, open your heart to diverse ways of being.
Experience these ways of being with the peoples of this land in the territories of the Tsimshian, of the Haisla, and of the Nisga'a. Create inspiring memories and adventures into a world within a world, of culture(s) since time immemorial, and of stories as together we Plant Seeds of Peace and Hope.
Come join us in beautiful northwest British Columbia!
Note: special hotel rates are available only until the end of February and there are very limited rooms available (50 total) at the special rate. So, register asap.
Jason Boudreau, President, chaired the meeting and gave the invocation.
Catherine Darley, Secretary, hosted ZOOM
Jim Evans, Sergeant at Arms, introduced guests
President’s Announcements:
Welcome to our guests, new and returning, as well as our own members who have taken time out of busy schedules to attend. We are grateful to see new faces, remember guests are ALWAYS welcome at our meetings.
Secretary's announcements:
reminders of upcoming events/meetings (see above)
birthdays, member club anniversaries, wedding anniversaries (see above)
Members' moments and special presentations:
Paul Martin was interviewed by Franco Gallo. Paul hails from Newfoundland; he comes from a multi-generational Rotary family with his Dad being a Rotarian in St. Johns. He joined RCoV once his kids were old enough to be a bit independent allowing him the time. Paul was club President in 1998-99 with Don Evans as his secretary. Paul's positive attitudes came through then as he and Don made sure to combine a lot of fun into the club and its programs with the focus on youth. Their motto for the year: Keep on track with Rotary. Quite fitting given Don's interest in the railway and Paul's in car racing. Paul has always been crazy about anything cars. He recently hosted a Wine and Wheels social and is planning another, possibly a car rally/treasure hunt. We'll look forward to that.
Frédérique Niel provided the club with the first of a series of mini social media trainings. She provided an overview of what social media accounts our club has and how many followers we have for each account. She emphasized how important it is to react posts, i.e., “like”, commenting, and sharing posts. The information can then get spread exponentially. The speed of your reaction is really important. It affects how the messages get pushed up in publicity and searches. The same goes for the number of reactions we receive, the more reactions the higher the priority in the search engines. How can you react: “like” is the easiest, but even better would be to comment. Even a simple sentence or two (“looking forward to attending this event”, “great group, sounds like a great event”, etc.) This will add more meat to the bones. Lastly you can share the posts, this shows the system that it was important enough to share amongst your friends.
We need to show people who are not current club members that we are active and attractive in order to potentially to bring in interested parties as potential members.
Click on the bell to receive notifications of posts as soon as they are launched. If you don’t want to do that, then check the site every few days for new posts.
Hints & tricks: open LinkedIn on your phone. At the edge of the search box there is a mini QR symbol. Click on it to show the QR code that you can share with people to quickly connect them to our account.
The focus of the meeting was to allow members to network with one another. This is something many of our members have been asking for -- the time to connect with one another. We all know that networking offers numerous benefits, both personally and professionally. It isn't just about making connections; it's about building meaningful, long-term relationships. These relationships can provide support and opportunities throughout your career and personal life. That's what Rotary provides to all of its members should you put the effort in to participate. Overall, networking is a valuable investment of time and effort that can yield numerous benefits both in the short and long term.
There were prescribed questions provided to start the conversations. And lots of chatter occurred; a wonderful buzz in the room. Thank you to all who attended and participated.
